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TIL: 60,000 deaths can be attributed to CIA Operation Condor. Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas [...] in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.

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9MZX TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death
R5vkQ TIL that in 1963, a cow named Elm Farm Ollie became the first cow to fly in an airplane and be milked mid-flight. Her milk was parachuted down to spectators at the International Air Exposition in St. Louis.
KO8Ga TIL: Due to geothermal energy, Iceland produces over a tonne of tomatoes every day
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